• ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op: ArtsLab: Overflow

    Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
    Shopfront Arts ArtsLab: Overflow, is a festival of seven new creative works by emerging artists. With bold new performance works spanning installation, theatre, puppetry, carving, performance art and film – this year’s ArtsLab is an exciting blend of young voices.⁠ This year, we’re also thrilled to welcome two incredible emerging…
    Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: Sistren

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are SEPARATED until the end of the year. But the world outside…
    Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Trophy Boys

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    St Imperium College’s all-boys team think they’ve got the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament in the bag. It’s the most important night of the academic year and the private school lads believe they’re about to intellectually own their sister school. The topic up for debate: “feminism…
    Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre: Beyond The Neck

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    A mother. A teenager. A tour guide. A man who can’t outrun the past. Their lives don’t intersect – until they do, in the aftershock of one day Australia won’t forget. Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck is a profoundly compassionate portrait of a community living with loss. Four individual stories…
    Editor's Choice The River

    Sydney Theatre Company: The River

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Miranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades star in The River, a haunting three-hander by UK playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem). The mysterious, 80-minute play is set in a remote wooden cabin where a lovesick fisherman is playing host to a woman. It should be a weekend full of romance, but all…
    Mara

    Theatre Works: Mara

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    A fearlessly inventive retelling of the Cinderella story from the stepmother’s perspective. Single mother of two Mara struggles to find work, before marrying a wealthy widower. Her new husband still grieves his first wife, buried beneath a cherry blossom tree in the garden – a tree whose branches tap relentlessly…
    ENGLISH

    Outhouse Theatre Co: ENGLISH

    Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    eymour Centre and Outhouse Theatre Co present the Sydney premiere of Pulitzer prize-winning English, by Sanaz Toossi, a wickedly funny and deeply moving look at the chaos of learning a new language. Iran, 2008 In a classroom in Karaj, four students seek to expand their horizons and opportunities by learning…
    AN ILIAD

    Sydney Theatre Company: AN ILIAD

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning international star David Wenham returns to Sydney Theatre Company as the Poet: a man who has spent millennia walking…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson, The Sapphires is set…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and…
    Ensemble Theatre: 84 Charing Cross Road

    Ensemble Theatre: 84 Charing Cross Road

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A heartwarming true story of friendship, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD celebrates the enduring bonds forged through letters, books, and a shared love of words. When a wisecracking New York writer and a reserved London bookdealer strike up a correspondence over their shared love of dusty old books, neither expects to…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…